Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Peninsula Players is famous in the Midwest for its summer productions in Door County, Wisconsin, but it’s not dormant all winter long. Plays are tested off-season, too. Titles in the compa…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 08:21PMMonday, December 26, 2022
Alabama Story, the true story of an embattled librarian persecuted for protecting children’s books in the Deep South of 1959, will make its West Virginia debut at Greenbrier Valley Theatre…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:15PMMonday, December 12, 2022
Hollywood, Nebraska, the six-actor comedy by Kenneth Jones that reunites two high school friends in their hometown in the Great Plains, will get its third production in a rolling world premi…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 10:33AMMonday, November 28, 2022
Alabama Story, Kenneth Jones’ fact-inspired play about an embattled librarian in the Civil Rights era, is now published in an Acting Edition from Dramatists Play Service, which also licens…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:44PMFriday, November 11, 2022
In spring 2022, I read a rueful, charming, tough-minded new play called Off Peak, about former lovers meeting on a train, and I knew immediately that I wanted to throw some questions at pla…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 04:13PMSunday, October 23, 2022
A fire that consumed three immigrant hatmakers in a notorious Ontario town more than a century ago has ignited the imagination of Canadian composer-lyricist Marek Norman, who turned their st…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:14PMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Years ago I did some work on an article I wanted to write about Jerry Herman’s five greatest show tunes. Y’know, one of those clickbait pieces where readers will either celebrate you or …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:05AMTuesday, June 7, 2022
Nearly 30 years of milestones in the lives of two pals who meet in middle school are centerstage in Jeffrey Lo’s heartfelt, charming comedy-drama Waiting for Next, finally getting its worl…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:59AMThursday, June 2, 2022
After a winter 2022 postponement due to COVID-era issues, Georgia Ensemble Theatre in Roswell, GA, will give Alabama Story — the six-actor, one-set drama about an embattled librarian in th…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:59AMSunday, May 1, 2022
Kenneth Jones’ six-actor comedy Hollywood, Nebraska — the story of two actresses returning to their dying hometown — will get at least three “rolling world premiere” productions by…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:34PMFriday, April 22, 2022
I just read a rueful, charming, tough new play called Off Peak, about former lovers meeting on a train, and I knew immediately that I wanted to throw some questions at playwright Brenda With…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:27PMThursday, April 21, 2022
Sean Blake, Judy Fitzgerald and Jan Lucas will be the trio of Midwestern snowbirds unpacking family secrets in a May 14 developmental staged reading of Kenneth Jones’ comedy-drama Two Henr…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:50PMSunday, March 20, 2022
“Ah, look at all the lonely people,” a line from Lennon and McCartney’s “Eleanor Rigby,” was on my mind when I read Stephen Kaplan’s quirky, sadness-tinged, four-actor comedy Tra…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:45PMMonday, February 14, 2022
When I saw a New York City reading of a three-character pop musical called Writing Kevin Taylor a few years ago, I was certain this would be the next big little hit in regional theaters — …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:17PMSunday, January 30, 2022
Kenneth Jones’ six-actor comedy Hollywood, Nebraska is the latest title in Music Theatre of Connecticut’s New Voices series, a non-musical pilot program that gives a spotlight to five …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:08PMThursday, January 6, 2022
Two Henrys, a three-character comedy-drama set at the dawn of marriage equality and the dusk of the worst days of the AIDS epidemic, will be explored in a spring staged reading as part of Ac…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:19PMSaturday, December 18, 2021
Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Ora Jones will create the role of Therese, the town doctor who sounds the alarm over a public health crisis, in the 2022 world premiere of Jeff Talbott’…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:34PMWednesday, December 1, 2021
Actress Greta Lambert, one of the great things to happen to American regional theater, is finally getting a chance to perform her one-person adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas C…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:23PMFriday, November 26, 2021
Broadway musical star Lisa Howard, whose powerful voice effortlessly glides from brassy to warm to everything in between, is in a holiday mood at the end of 2021. The actress beloved for rol…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:36PMThursday, November 11, 2021
Actors Theatre of Indiana welcomes Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Blessing for a Nov. 13 reading of his new pandemic-era play, The Family Line, the second title in ATI’s 2021-22 Lab Series. B…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:50PMThursday, November 4, 2021
The largely anonymous Chinese immigrants who built the American transcontinental railroad in the 19th century finally get a collective voice — and it sings! — in the world premiere of Ja…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:52PMSaturday, October 16, 2021
Ellen Simon, daughter of the late great playwright Neil Simon, will finally see the world premiere of her play, Ass, starting Oct. 22 in a production by Pioneer Theatre Company. The drama ab…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:55PMThursday, October 14, 2021
The famously hawk-nosed actress Margaret Hamilton — best known as The Wicked Witch in the film “The Wizard of Oz,” but employed for decades as a treasured character actress — gets a …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 08:01PMThursday, October 7, 2021
Music Theatre of Connecticut launches New Voices — a non-musical pilot program that gives a spotlight to five contemporary plays by living authors in staged readings — Oct. 11 with Jeff …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:07PMWednesday, October 6, 2021
A troubled war veteran shakes the lives of residents of a South Side Chicago apartment building in Joshua Allen’s The October Storm, getting its world premiere Oct. 8-23 by Hudson Stage Co…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:47AMThursday, September 30, 2021
Georgia Ensemble Theatre in Roswell, GA, will give Alabama Story — the six-actor, one-set drama about an embattled librarian in the Deep South — its state premiere as part of the residen…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 04:23PMMonday, September 20, 2021
Provenance, a new play set in and around a Hoosier history museum, gets a staged reading Sept. 25 as the first title in Actors Theatre of Indiana’s 2021-22 Lab Series devoted to developing…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:55PMThursday, August 26, 2021
Midwest actor and playwright Adam Tran conjures the conquering mood of the Mongol Empire’s Genghis Khan in a new one-man show, Mongrel, getting an open-air world-premiere staging by Know T…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:05PMSunday, June 13, 2021
The First Annual Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival welcomes playwrights, other theater practitioners, students and theatergoers from around country to shine a spotlight on new works …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 09:53PMMonday, May 31, 2021
New plays by Mark St. Germain and Anne Undeland will enliven Great Barrington Public Theater’s summer 2021 season in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. Six weeks of performances — includin…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:56PMWednesday, March 31, 2021
A few years ago when a play of mine was being produced by Florida Studio Theatre, a twentysomething intern named Dave Osmundsen picked me up at the airport and we got to chatting about plays…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:27PM 
